As a follow up to that post.

Clover had influence on how the show went, and the Gundam Guncannon and Guntank designs. They did not influence the Zeon designs which is why some of them are less "cartoony" than the Federation suits. Back then, bad guys were disposable to toy makers because most shows (super robot shows) had bad guys of the week, usually aliens or Kaiju or something.

I think Tomino wanted Amuro to die in the show (which actually happened in the novel). The book also had things like sex and more explicit violence, which were not present in the show. The cast were not kids unlike the show. Also, some pretty good illustrations (a reassuring trend in Tomino novels) like the one I attached.